The impulse to bring together scholars of Germanic philology and Romance philology to discuss the interlacing of motifs and themes in both traditions derives from the awareness of the many and varying ties between the two fields. Linguistic, literary, philological and textual relationships are common grounds for the two disciplines, but, surprisingly, they have often been neglected by the research. The papers selected by the editors and included in this interdisciplinary miscellany bring to light both constants and variants between the Germanic and the Romance traditions, outlining an even wider and deeper network of cultural connections than previously thought.